East Joplin School

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0 height="100%"><tr> <td valign="top" width=200 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000" background="006fa9e3.jpg"> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" BGCOLOR="#99FFFF" TEXT="#F7F7FF"> <div> <FONT SIZE="6" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >East Joplin School<B>   </B></FONT><A HREF="http://www.jaspercountyschools.org/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.jaspercountyschools.org/"><U><B>home</B></U></A><B> </B><B> </B><B>  </B><A HREF="id8.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Joplin"><U><B>Joplin School </B></U></A></div> <div> The East Joplin School</div> <bR> <div> Mr. Ormsby was succeeded as principal of the East Joplin school by S. A. Underwood. Mr. Underwood was a good organizer and brought the schools up to a</div> <div> high standard, retiring in 1877, when he was elected county superintendent of schools. For notes on his administration as county commissioner the reader is </div> <div> referred to the chapter on "Educational Matters."</div> <bR> <div> The teaching force in East Joplin during the Centennial year comprised the following, with the number enrolled by each on the first day of the term: S. A. Underwood, </div> <div> principal, 40; U. B. Webster, 60; Josie Culpepper, 70; Anna Whitwell, 80; total, 250. With two hundred and fifty pupils in the four rooms the first day, one can readily </div> <div> imagine the ingenuity it required to plan for the school when all the pupils are enrolled. Mr. Underwood devised a system of hearing recitation under these trying circumstances.</div> <bR> <div> <I>A History of Jasper County, Missouri and Its People, Volume 1, by Joel Thomas Livingston. 1912</I></div> <bR> <div> <I><IMG SRC="0cf620b0.jpg" border=0 width="610" height="11" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></I></div> <bR> <div> In 1892 it became necessary to build again and $20,000 were voted for ward-school improvements — additions being </div> <div> made to South Joplin (now the Franklin School), East Joplin, Byersville and North Heights (now Columbia). </div> <div> The north half of the present high school was built in 1896.</div> <div> <I>A History of Jasper County, Missouri and Its People, Volume 1, by Joel Thomas Livingston. 1912</I></div> <bR> <div> East Joplin School teachers:</div> <div> Ella Lazenby, Myrtle Harman, Mildred Dye, Mattie Caldwell, Essie Forsythe, Alice Powell, Edith Dagley,</div> <div> Bessie Powell, Mamie Hale, Elmer Smith, Ella Helpenstein, A. C. Elliff.</div> <div> <I>Joplin Evening Times, May 10, 1902</I></div> <bR> <div> <I><IMG SRC="0b84c610.jpg" border=0 width="588" height="609" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></I></div> <div> 1906 Sanborn map</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>